Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION 

The promotion of social entrepreneurship and support for social entrepreneurs in the UK and worldwide, plus the creation and support of new projects run which are by young people for young people to address their needs and concerns.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
Established: 16 years

www.civa.org.uk

norton@civa.org.uk

02074311412

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£1,504£1,507£-2£0£4,211£2,83622.6131
31/12/21£1,706£1,578£127£0£4,276£2,88021.91010
31/12/20£717£599£117£0£4,012£2,88357.7225
31/12/19£2,489£497£1,992£0£3,844£90521.8013
31/12/18£506£443£63£0£1,857£1,22733.203
31/12/17£521£360£161£0£1,783£1,10336.700
31/12/16£373£249£124£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£520£265£254£1£466£1195.400
31/12/14£465£424£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£361£370£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£332£352£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£189£154£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£137£118£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£171£149£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£249£219£30£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 26%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 22.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 16 months
Quick Ratio: 28.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • China, Hong Kong, India, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 1 volunteer

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£6,741,226
National Lottery Community Fund£164,000
Tudor Trust£49,000
Esmee Fairbairn£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - An Even Better Arbourthorne 2
£154,000 19/08/2022
This funding will support The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) to deliver a range of initiatives addressing poverty in the Arbourthorne Ward of Sheffield South Yorkshire. The aim is ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Quantitative Smartphone Reader Application for use with Lateral Flow Assays
£666,667 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830158
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - GSCALE (Graphene- Seat, Concrete, Arch, Leisure, Elastomer)
£4,724,559 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830170
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Haydale HDPlas Production Scale Up
£1,100,000 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830240
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing with Grenfell
£10,000 19/11/2021
The funding will be used to develop gardening and fruit vegetable and mushroom growing on the Lancaster West Estate. The project aims to develop a more sustainable economy increase food security ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Quantitative Smartphone Reader Application for use with Lateral Flow Assays
£250,000 07/04/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830158
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£15,000 28/01/2021
12
Towards delegated grant-making for MeWe Foundation as a contribution aimed at establishing the Create Equity Fund, a racialised community led investment fund to achieve diversity of leadership, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Create Equity Fund - Arts and Culture Fund for Black and minority ethnic led organisations
£15,000 30/11/2020
Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) is an innovations centre founded in 1995 to develop, pilot and fund new ideas for addressing social problems. With this grant, CIVA will research and ....more
DCMS - CIVA - Create Equity Fund
£12,000 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 21/02/2020
HealthPitch Sing UP Warminster!
Tudor Trust - Grant to Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£49,000 28/05/2019
36
over three years towards the running and evaluation costs of a community development project in Arbourthorne, Sheffield, based around a primary school
National Lottery Community Fund - An Even Better Arbourthorne
£133,483 18/04/2019
36
The project will use funding to address issues of poverty in Arbourthorne and will work with the local community to deliver a range of initiatives. The project aims to develop community leadership ....more
Comic Relief - Soul Medicine
£50,000 25/07/2018
12
Soul Medicine takes complex and overwhelming information, turns it into bite-sized chunks, and delivers it via email and Facebook Messenger. This approach is particularly targeted towards migrant ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Davina's Fund April 2018 Tour
£9,995 14/02/2018
12
This project will deliver opera performances in care settings which will bring people together and reduce social isolation. This will improve the mental health and wellbeing of people who are living ....more
The Funding Network - Greenwave UK
£6,348 25/09/2017
A zero-input and zero waste aquaculture means of sustainably farming a variety of ocean produce such as seaweed, oysters, mussels and clams to stimulate the local economy in coastal communities ....more
Comic Relief - Soul Medicine
£52,220 19/07/2017
12
Soul Medicine is an online support platform that offers free courses and information for women experiencing abuse. Courses will be developed by Chayn, or other women's organisations and delivered via ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Online Communities
£20,000 01/09/2016
Involving patients and their online communities: A Scoping Project
Tudor Trust - Grant to Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£5,000 14/01/2016
12
over one year towards the core costs of Marmalade 2016, an open-access event in Oxford bringing together innovative thinkers in the third sector
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£30,000 14/12/2015
36
Towards core costs of Marmalade, the free and open-access fringe event to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship which aims to bring people with ideas for social change together in fruitful ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£49,000 03/09/2015
12
Towards the exploration of a user-led approach to designing and developing practical social investment solutions that better meet the needs of social sector organisations, their funders and investors.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£7,000 12/03/2015
Towards a ‘hackathon’ event at Marmalade, the fringe to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, to deliver practical new products, services or initiatives.
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - MOODOCs
£20,000 29/01/2015
Investigating the potential of Massive Online Disease Oriented Communities
Tudor Trust - Grant to Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£60,000 08/07/2013
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the development of Innovation Labs on Peabody Trust estates in Hackney and Westminster
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£30,000 09/08/2011
Towards the cost of the Covent Garden Innovation Lab, which will bring together clusters of social entrepreneurs as a resource for developing creative solutions to social problems.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£38,770 04/08/2010
6
Towards Project costs Towards research and conference costs of the British Waterways Re-made Project.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
£10,000 17/12/2008
12
Towards Core costs Towards the Sarah Dodds Enterprise Accelerator fund to support individual and social enterprises in her memory.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-81
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/12/2007, number: 1122095
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/09/2007, number: 06374591
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS TRUST on 10/12/2020
Main office

9-10 MANSFIELD PLACE
LONDON
NW3 1HS

Objectives

OBJECTS3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS RECOGNISED AS BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF EVERY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

EVERY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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